Professor architect Juliusz Żórawski (1898–1967) is presented in this memorial text by one of his close pupils and collaborators. The author describes the air of lectures on architectural design given by Żórawski, and the mood prevailing in the chair headed by Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology during the first 20 years after the WW II. The case of the city house in Warsaw built in 1937 proves the avant-garde role of Żórawski in the Polish architecture between the two wars. The original text prepared in 1968 is published here for the first time.

The previously unpublished text that has been presented earlier is a dissertation that Janusz Ballenstedt presented during his doctoral proceedings, which were initiated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology in Cracow in 1964. The supervisor of J. Ballenstedt’s work was professor Juliusz Żórawski. The original is a bound typescript composed of 87 pages. This publication, after nearly half a century, is the result of a belief in not only the historical value of the work, but also due to the author himself, who took it upon himself in it to creatively continue the thoughts of Żórawski contained in O budowie formy architektonicznej – an important work in the field of the psychology of architecture. Footnotes and underlines have been preserved in accordance with the original. The text in square parentheses [ ] and endnotes have been written by the editor – J. Krzysztof Lenartowicz.